#irs

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place. ↗

— Owen Arthur

#occurring #only #place #prevent #them

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. ↗

— William Langewiesche

#faraway #forms #little #many #place

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#first #hand #nice #these #witness

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#began #could #doing #find #first

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#artist #case #first #going #loyalty

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. ↗

— Eric Avery

#around #buck #considered #experience #first

I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep. ↗

— Kirsten Hubbard

#kirsten-hubbard #love #travel #wanderlove #inspirational

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#always #behind #chance #change #change things

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#issued #license #saudi #stop #until